Molecular farming
Seyed Javad Davarpanah; Majid Dana; Gholamreza Bakhshi Khaniki; Amir Abbas Mokhtarieh
Abstract
Laccases are a group of glycoproteins which can oxidize a wide range of compounds with various biological activities and industrial applications in food and beverage, pharmaceutical, textile, and even military-related industries. Regarding this enzyme structure and the ability of plant protein production ...
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Laccases are a group of glycoproteins which can oxidize a wide range of compounds with various biological activities and industrial applications in food and beverage, pharmaceutical, textile, and even military-related industries. Regarding this enzyme structure and the ability of plant protein production machinery for protein glycosylation, a construct consisting of fungal laccaseII under control of root-specific mannopine synthase promoter and tobacco etch virus translation enhancer was designed for tobacco transformation to be used in phytoremediation. N-terminal addition of acidic tobacco endochitinase Q to Laccase directs its apoplastic secretion. Putative laccase agrobacterium-mediated transformants were confirmed using polymerase chain reaction. Semi-quantitative PCR of roots and leaves of putative transformants showed differential expression of the laccase gene at the transcriptomic level resulting from the differential function of bacterial mannopine synthase promoter. Western blotting results confirmed production of mature protein in roots which also confirms the correct function of signal peptide and secretion of this enzyme into the apoplastic space of roots. Regarding their application for protein production or phytoremediation transgenics of interest should be screened based on protein concentration and enzyme activity.
Molecular farming
Nasim Ehteshm Rasi; Ahmad Rouhibakhsh; Bita Soheili Moghadam; Nahid Masoudi
Volume 8, Issue 22 , September 2018, , Pages 51-64
Abstract
Potato virus S (PVS) of the genus Carlavirus belongs to the Betaflexiviridae family is one of the important potato infectious viruses. To detect PVS, the suspected leaf samples were collected from potato fields in Ardabil province during summer in 2015 and 2016. To assess the biological properties, symptomatic ...
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Potato virus S (PVS) of the genus Carlavirus belongs to the Betaflexiviridae family is one of the important potato infectious viruses. To detect PVS, the suspected leaf samples were collected from potato fields in Ardabil province during summer in 2015 and 2016. To assess the biological properties, symptomatic leaves inoculated to indicator plants in the greenhouse condition. The samples were tested for PVS infection using DAS-ELISA. RT-PCR for molecular detection was done using specific primers related to the coat protein area of Potato virus S. The coat protein gene nucleotide sequences of two isolates of Potato virus S called Ag-9 and Os-11 obtained from Agria and Oceana cultivars were determined. The CP sequences of two isolates were compared with each other and with 29 other isolates of the virus. The reconstructed phylogenetic tree clustered the isolates in two main groups I (subgroups IA and IB) and II. Two Ag-9-PVS-F and Os-11-PVS-F isolates were clustered in IB subgroup along with isolates from Azarbaijan, Hamedan, Kerman and Esfahan as well as isolates from Hungary, Ukraine, Scotland and India. The putative coat protein amino acid sequence alignment of this two isolates with 6 Iranian and 5 foreigner isolates showed difference in 8 and 25 amino acids for Ag-9-PVS-F and Os-11-PVS-F isolates respectively. The results indicate that there are various PVS isolates in the country, and the difference in nucleotide and amino acid sequences may indicate differences in the geographic origin and hence the type and timing of entry of virus isolates into the region.
